San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-04-26
BROOKLYN LETTER
From our Regular Correspondent
BROOKLYN, April 2lst, 1887.

Tell the truth now, don't you think
Mrs. Twitohell Ia actIng like TOOL In
her efforts to emancipate her sexr" Mrs.
Twitohell Is a Brooklyn "WOman's Reg
lister" and Is very wide awake ana
T, solute one. This question was put TO
me by little lady who had never IN her
life performed a harder days work then
to drive in the morning, go to the mat
inee later, and to the opera In the even
ing. and who lives in a brown stone
house with a professional housekeeper,
and whose chief responsibility Is to see
that her Scotch terrier does not take
cold. That word "emanCipate" from
such lips drives me into state OF TEN
per which can only be described by the
word blizzard. To think that In the
wear 1887, the hOnester, the more Vlrtu-
Gus, and the equally intelligent hall OF
creation can be spoken Of rs slaves Is
humilating to the last degree. Mrs
TwitohelPs appeal to the mayor OF
Brooklyn for protection In the work OF
registration ie probably necessary pre-
caution The ignorant, the vicious, the
saloon bummers and runners are ready
to make desperate fight In the future
as they have in the past, to prevent wO.
men from voting. They know only too
well what the ballot would do for these
wives who have for years arisen to
kicks and poverty, and gone to bed with
worse than lifeless sinking beasts or
carrion crows. They can laugh at all
this protection and high license legisla-
ton. There is way to get round Doth
Of these. But they know that the pOlit-
ical expr, ssiOn of opini N on this sub
iect by drunkards' wives and daughters
- IA nh nd In nafa II
one and the only formidable obstacle to
the perpetuatiOn of this misery.
You that live long enough will see
women vote" said Henry Ward Beecher,
land when you see women voting you
will see less lying, less brutality, and
more public spirit, heroism, and rO-
nance In public affairs" This para
graph stands TO the name OF Susan Il.
Anthony in the Beecher Birthday Book,
Immediately under that OF Calico, of
whom Mr.. Beecher once remarked, HE
had TO recant. He did the best he could.
He was man. II Susan B. Anthony
had been in GalileO's place the fur would
have flown, but she never would have
taken back syllable" Isn't it little
odd that these two famous persons
should have been born in the same
month and on the same day? No man
saw so clearly as Mr.. BeeOher what the
ballot in the hands of women would do
for temperance. He was criticized rs a
conservative and a slave to public Opin-
ion In this regard, but | know how deep
ly the iron entered his soul when he
saw the havoc made by strong drink. 1t
came very closely to him, among his
dearest friends, and in his church con-
gregatiOn; and he knew that the only
remedial agent was the right on the
part of the sufferers by rum TO protest
at the polls. 1t makes me laugh when
hear my pOmpous masculine friends
talking about the inability OF women to
conduct business on business principles.
WHY, | could fill blanket sheet like the
New York World with the names of
women prominent and wonder
fully successful In business, women
who have taken their husbands places
in sickness or absence, or at death. and
carried it on without break. Nobody
but born fool will talk such stuff as
that at this time. Look at Helen LenOir
for instance, D'0yly Carte's business
manager who came over here with the
opera Of RuddygOre, already condemned
10 London, arranged all the dates in the
most perfect manner, insured a fair sue
cess, and then skipped over to London
again TO take up her work there She was
business from the crown of her head TO
the sOes of her feet, and she shade her
self felt and respected by everybody
who came into relations with her. The
statement that women do not want the
ballot. played in editorial variations by
some of our brightest brothers OF the
quill, do not believe to be true. The
man who Yields the most formidable in
iuenOe in this espeCt-tOrmidable be-
cause so good naturedly sarcastic. and
satiriCal, is the editor in chief of the
Brooklyn Eagle. And by the way even
ne doesn't know everything. though the
mammoth Memorial Eagle, and
the splendid editing of the
Investigation committee, matter would
lead one to think so. He knows that
1.-THE pen is mightier than the sword"
but he had no idea till the other day
that the jamb of door was mightier
than the pen. | was at the Office of the
Ideal Fountain Pen Co, on Broadway
few days ago, selecting new weapon to
fight the world with, and found Mr.. Wa
terman in state Of considerable pertur.
baton. Mr.. st. Clair McKelway, in sn
effort to open his pen, which he had
ammmed together, presumably after the
successful birth Of brilliant editorial,
concluded to shut the door on il and pull
with might and main. The Eagle Chief
has both might and main, and the door
was loyal. The effect can be imagined
by persons OF ordinary constructive sbil-
ity. In fact. | shouldn't be surprised if
Mrs. Twitchell would know better than
that. Somebody will now repeat the an
cient chestnut concerning Sir Isaac
Newton and the cat and the kitten.
Isaac's genius has always excused his
lack OF common sense. But If Isaac had
been a woman, the genius would not
have counted
"Happened along with a fire gren-
ade."
In recent letter | quoted the above
from an eastern paper in connection
with the awful bridge accident on the
Providence and Boston railroad. The
car stove had commenced its deadly
work when q gentleman discharged one
Of these most etiiCaciOus weapons into
the fire and so prevented the manned
and imprisoned from being roasted to
death. This man who "happened along"
proves to have been Boston merchant
who had bought lot of these extin-
guishers from the Harden Hand Grenade
company, OF New York, and had taken
half dozen with him that morning to
give to friend at one Of these stations.
Now as these grenades have been tried
and proved, why are they not to be
found in steamboats, and on trains every
where? As they are very inexpensive.
one Of three reasons must obtain. The
prOprietOrs Of these great corporations
must be either ignorant, stingy, or care
less. IL Is mite DOssihlp that sOma OF